I think your original conclusion, 2007 is correct.
What exactly does sourced vs dated even mean?
The document states "still investigating" for multiple issues. It doesn't take the NSA 6 years to investigate these things.
The questions are very basic, such as, browser/JS exploits, leftover cookies, and owning the majority of nodes. That is hardly top secret, all of these were things that were public concerns long ago.
The other alternative is they just don't care. They can still slurp down a good portion of the incoming and outgoing email traffic. If one of wikileak's origin stories are to be believed most Tor users have no idea how Tor works or what they are actually doing, including government operators (with the appropriate code name EPICFAIL on page 9.)
Going completely off topic, I had an idea earlier. Bitcoin right now is using something around 16,000 petaflops of processing. This shows that when proper incentives exist massive computational and network resources can be utilized in a distributed manner.
What if a protocol existed which forced user participation or required them to exchange a store of value to use it? For example, if a user acted as a node (relay not exit) they mined a currency (probably inflationary.) If a user did not act as a node, they had to pay a currency which would then be distributed to exit node operators. The currency could be bought and sold through exchanges rather than to a central commercial entity.
The end goal, besides having a lot more network bandwidth, would be to have so many relay and exit nodes running it would be economically impossible for a single entity to compromise a significant number of them.
What exactly does sourced vs dated even mean?
The document states "still investigating" for multiple issues. It doesn't take the NSA 6 years to investigate these things.
The questions are very basic, such as, browser/JS exploits, leftover cookies, and owning the majority of nodes. That is hardly top secret, all of these were things that were public concerns long ago.
The other alternative is they just don't care. They can still slurp down a good portion of the incoming and outgoing email traffic. If one of wikileak's origin stories are to be believed most Tor users have no idea how Tor works or what they are actually doing, including government operators (with the appropriate code name EPICFAIL on page 9.)
Going completely off topic, I had an idea earlier. Bitcoin right now is using something around 16,000 petaflops of processing. This shows that when proper incentives exist massive computational and network resources can be utilized in a distributed manner.
What if a protocol existed which forced user participation or required them to exchange a store of value to use it? For example, if a user acted as a node (relay not exit) they mined a currency (probably inflationary.) If a user did not act as a node, they had to pay a currency which would then be distributed to exit node operators. The currency could be bought and sold through exchanges rather than to a central commercial entity.
The end goal, besides having a lot more network bandwidth, would be to have so many relay and exit nodes running it would be economically impossible for a single entity to compromise a significant number of them.
Of course, easier said than done.